Another old security problem

Posted Sep 17, 2010 20:34 UTC (Fri) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: Another old security problem by rilder
Parent article: Another old security problem

> I am not sure about the unlimited stack size. Most (or all) distro kernels restrict stack size. In my case it is 8 MB which I think is quite sufficient even for large systems.

The *default* for *thread* stacks (which are of fixed size instead of automatically growing like main process stack) is commonly set to 8MB.